Events

• The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))

January

February

March

April

May

• May - Blackbeard leads 300 sailors in four ships to blockade the port of Charleston, South Carolina in late May. The "Queen Anne's Revenge" and "Adventure" are both lost in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina one week later. Blackbeard allows Stede Bonnet to once again command the "Revenge", which is renamed the "Royal James". Bonnet rescues 25 sailors abandoned by Blackbeard on a sandbar and continues his life of piracy.

June

• June - Blackbeard takes refuge in Bath, North Carolina where North Carolina Governor Charles Eden pardons his entire crew.

July

• July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed

August

September

October

• October - Stede Bonnet and is crew is captured near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and taken to Charleston, South Carolina where they are tried for piracy. All but four of Bonnet's crew are found guilty and sentenced to death.

November

• November 8 - Stede Bonnet escapes from prison, but the remainder of his guilty crew members are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina.
• November 22 - Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, Virginia Governor Alexander Spottswood sends a Royal Navy contingent to North Carolina where they battle Blackbeard and his crew in Ocracoke Inlet. Blackbeard is killed in the action after receiving five musketball wounds and 25 sword lacerations.

December

• December 6 - After the death of Charles XII on November 30, Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of Sweden.
• December 17 - Austria, Great Britain, and France declare war on Spain, launching the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
• December 18 - Stede Bonnet is hanged in Charleston, South Carolina after being recaptured.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• January 7 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
• January 29 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
• February 17 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1790)
• March 31 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
• April 4 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
• April 7 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
• April 20 - David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
• April 24 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
• April 26 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
• April 27 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
• April 30 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (d. 1792)
• May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
• May 17 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 778)
• May 23 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
• May 30 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
• June 5 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
• June 17 - George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
• July 5 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
• July 18 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
• July 31 - John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
• August 11 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)
• September 18 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
• October 19 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
• October 28 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (d. 1793)
• November 3 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)

Deaths

• January 6 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
• January 6 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• January 17 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler
• February 1 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
• February 18 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
• May 7 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (b. 1658)
• May 30 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)
• July 28 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
• July 30 - William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
• November 22 - Blackbeard, English pirate
• November 30 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
• December 6 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
• December 9 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (b. 1650)
• December 19 - Stede Bonnet, the "gentleman pirate" (b. unknown)
• Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan and historian (b. 1629)

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